And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Winged Athena holding a helmet unearthed inside an Etruscan villa c. 100 BC.
For context that is almost the exact year (depending on who you talk to) that Gaius Julius Caesar was born. Rome was all powerful and about to become even more so.
Timeless art, timeless beauty.
ReplyDeleteStunning.
ReplyDeleteImagine what it took to create that.
ReplyDeleteAthena was more callipygian than I'd imagined!
ReplyDeleteI concur sir, but being the rube that I am, I just blurted out "nice ass Athena."
DeleteFor context that is almost the exact year (depending on who you talk to) that Gaius Julius Caesar was born. Rome was all powerful and about to become even more so.
ReplyDeletethink that helmet still has a head in it.
ReplyDeleteWas she a redhead?
DeleteShow me african art that compares
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